Word: nan
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...Nan Nixon, Washington-based director of federal relations for the University, who lobbied in favor of the new legislation cited two specific provisions for which Harvard fought...
...newspaper arrived a day late and never before 9 a.m. I am an early riser, so the first two or three hours of my vacation mornings were spent getting the news from the likes of Maxwell, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Frank Conroy, Alice Adams, Stewart O'Nan, Charles Baxter--short stories and novels--and from Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, a memoir so rich it might be a novel...
...clock came, force of habit drew me to the shop where the papers arrive, and for the time it took to read them, I would lay aside, say, Wolff's The Rich Brother, a brooding short story about two brothers joined by fear and hatred, or O'Nan's novel The Names of the Dead, about a man who cannot leave the Vietnam War behind...
...group composed its own song after stopping in Washington DC to visit Walsh's Aunt Nan, who was not home. Sitting on the curb outside Aunt Nan's house, the group wrote a fictional country-western song whose lyrics included, "There's shit in my peanut butter." A debate over whether to use a knife or spoon to spread the peanut butter on the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches they were eating (courtesy of HDS) inspired the group's songwriting effort. "At that point, we had not been sleeping a lot," Philipp said...
Second daughter Deng Nan, 52, is the only Deng child who holds a government post; she is vice minister of the State Science and Technology Commission. The youngest offspring, Deng Zhifang, 46, has been involved in property development and investment. He was director of two Hong Kong-listed companies, one of which has been tarnished by a financial scandal. Ever since, Deng Zhifang has kept an extremely low profile. And if history can offer any guide, that is a tactic his siblings would be well advised to mimic. During the last major power shift in China, Mao Zedong's family...